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Long Reads17 Jun 26
Yum China's $1.2bn Pizza Hut bet meets a consumer economy that just shrank
Opinion17 Jun 26
Bitcoin's 12% June slide leaves most bullish bets underwater — and the signal flashing is the wrong one to chase
Long Reads17 Jun 26
A memorandum, signed in pixels: what the U.S.–Iran electronic MOU does and does not settle
Opinion17 Jun 26
Bitcoin's Iran-deal rally is a confidence trick the derivatives market isn't buying
Culture17 Jun 26
Starmer's Glastonbury moment puts a new spin on the British political pose
Long Reads17 Jun 26
Warsh's first Fed: rate hold, three-year inflation high, and the war nobody is allowed to name
Opinion17 Jun 26
Meta's morale problem is bigger than the snack budget
Culture17 Jun 26
The venture capital veteran who called Facebook in 2004 now says the AI economy is being mispriced
Geopolitics17 Jun 26
Smartavia 737 in distress over Black Sea: what the early reports actually say
Opinion17 Jun 26
Ripple's Flutterwave bet is a test of whether dollar-stablecoins can ride Africa's payments rails
Opinion17 Jun 26
Coinbase's everything-exchange bet, and the price of convenience
Opinion17 Jun 26
Rivian's layoff pivot is not a story about EVs. It is a story about who gets to lose slowly in public.
Opinion17 Jun 26
India's consumer courts are quietly becoming the country's most accessible regulator
Opinion17 Jun 26
Coinbase wants to be your broker, your banker, and now your adviser. The SEC just let it.
Culture17 Jun 26
Disability Arts Online opens a national archive to the people who built the field
Opinion17 Jun 26
Bitcoin's mid-2026 setup: cheaper chips, hungrier balance sheets
Culture17 Jun 26
The Louvre says it is 'running out of steam.' The funding fight is now political.
Sport16 Jun 26
Celtics reportedly table offer for Giannis as Knicks title reshapes the Eastern math
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran's reopening: what the reported US-Iran MoU actually unlocks
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The $300bn question: how a US-Iran private fund became the new fault line in the Israel relationship
Long Reads16 Jun 26
'No obligation': Trump resets US-Iran posture as reconstruction tab looms
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Bargain, Musk's Trillion, and the New Geometry of American Power
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal: what "no nuclear weapon" actually buys
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Comments at 10:21 UTC Reveal a New Theory of the Deal: Geography Optional, Lebanon a Variable
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The $300 Billion Question: Reading Trump's Iran Deal Beyond the Talking Points
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The $300 billion question: what Trump's Iran deal does — and doesn't — say about US hegemony
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Three hundred billion dollars and a barrel of dust: parsing Washington's reported offer to Tehran
Culture16 Jun 26
Tehran's transport refresh: 10,000 vehicles, one quiet signal of Iran's industrial limits
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Tehran Memorandum: Anatomy of a Deal That Isn't One Yet
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A Russian frigate, a British yacht, and a warning shot in the English Channel
Culture16 Jun 26
Ratcliffe warns Trump that Iran is unlikely to meet U.S. nuclear demands, injecting fresh friction into the…
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Min Aung Hlaing's Beijing Stage: A Junta Discovers Legitimacy Has a Supplier
Culture16 Jun 26
Tehran's ritual choreography: the symbolism behind Khamenei's commemoration campaign
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The deal Israel didn't see: how a US-Iran agreement outpaced its closest Middle Eastern ally
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Forty years on, Iraq returns to the World Cup — and the country briefly stops to watch
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The blockade that wasn't: How a Tehran claim of US naval easing became a global test of attribution
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran, Washington and a deal Israel wasn't shown: the Iran file cracks open at the seams
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Oil, Enrichment, and the Price of a Deal: Inside the June 2026 Iran Calculus
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran walks onto a World Cup stage it has been denied for nine years
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Iran Deal That Wasn't Shown to Israel: How a 'Tactical Defeat' Is Being Spun as a Win
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Huckabee–Vance split: a public crack in the US–Israel frame over the Iran deal
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Huckabee Breaks Ranks: Inside the Trump-Israel Clash Over the Iran Deal
Culture16 Jun 26
CIA doubt on Iranian follow-through puts a nuclear deal back in the same old waiting room
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Beijing’s courtship of Min Aung Hlaing: how a junta leader became China’s second diplomatic prize in a fortnight
Long Reads16 Jun 26
China's consumer stall meets a Gulf hedging its bets: reading the June 2026 disconnect
Culture16 Jun 26
Inside a Ukrainian remand cell: how a corruption suspect became a weight-loss story
Sport16 Jun 26
China's World Cup audience gets a 12-hour time-lag problem, and a steel sector gets one of its own
Culture16 Jun 26
Ratcliffe's Doubts Put a Floor Under the Iran Memorandum
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Zelensky Draws a Line in the Travel Itinerary: Why the Location of a Trump-Era Ukraine–Russia Summit Matters
Sport16 Jun 26
Mbappé, Messi and the betting line: a World Cup opener that doubles as a market signal
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran deal push meets cabinet resistance as Ratcliffe, Rubio and Hegseth press the brakes
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran's $300bn Bet: Inside the US-Iran Memorandum That Could Quiet the Lebanon Front
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The interim deal that isn't: parsing Tehran and Washington's rush to a signing
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran's Moment: A US-Iran Interim Deal Converges With Domestic Repression
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A deal in the desert: how a US-Iran text became a market event before it became a treaty
Business16 Jun 26
US-Iran deal clears path for Iranian oil exports to resume on signing
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A $300 billion fund, a paused enrichment programme, and a question of enforcement: parsing the Trump-Iran accord as it…
Long Reads16 Jun 26
After four years in Poland, a Ukrainian packs up: the quiet fracture inside Europe's refugee compact
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump reframes Ukraine as next priority after Iran deal, but the path he inherits is the one he largely paved
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Two-Front Pivot: Trade Doubts on Mexico, Talks With Zelensky, and a New Line on Iran
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump Floats a Syria-Handoff for Hezbollah, Putting a US-Iran Deal Above Tel Aviv
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Trump Holds the Line on a Two-Track Russia-Iran Gamble, With Sanctions as the Lever
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A $300bn fund, a public handshake, and an absent text: parsing the Trump–Qatari–Iran moment
Long Reads16 Jun 26
"Not very valuable stuff": Trump on Iranian nuclear dust, and the question of what comes next
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran deal enters a second stage — and the Lebanon test
Business16 Jun 26
Trump–Iran deal clears the way for Iranian oil back into global markets, but the document is one and a half pages long
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran, Washington and a deal Israel wasn't shown: unpacking the Trump-Iran accord
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Dismissal Calculus: How a Stalled Iran Deal Is Reshaping Trump's National Security Bench
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's Iran Accord Tests a Tighter Alignment Between Washington and the Gulf — and a Looser One With Israel
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The $300 billion question: parsing the Trump-Iran framework
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump Floats Outsourcing Hezbollah to Damascus: A Read of the Remarkable Line
Long Reads16 Jun 26
At the G7, Trump recasts Ukraine as a weapons market — and the framing is already being absorbed
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's G7 ultimatum on Iran: deal announced, Israel kept in the dark, regional balance quietly redrawn
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump at Évian: A US-Iran "second phase," a public jab at Netanyahu, and the G7's awkward geometry
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump at the G7: Deal-Making, Doubts, and the Polymarket Lens
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tariff as Talking Stick: Trump's Wine Threat to France and the New Vocabulary of Atlantic Bargaining
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tariffs as Personal: How Trump's 100% Wine Threat Rewrites Transatlantic Bargaining
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The 100% Wine Tariff Threat: How a Single Trade Tweet Reshapes Atlantic Bargaining
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Trump's 36%: Inside the Politics of a Battered Approval Rating
Sport16 Jun 26
Texas Tech walks out of the Sorsby mess with a quarterback and a target on its back
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Tehran Memorandum: Inside the 48 Hours That Rewrote the Iran File
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, toll-free: reading the new US line on the world's most expensive chokepoint
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The 'Pristine' Route: How a 14 June Trump-Iran Announcement Rewrote the Strait of Hormuz Risk Premium
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz and the price of a deal: Trump, G7 allies, and the architecture of American transactional diplomacy
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz, reopened: what the US–Iran MoU actually settles — and what it leaves dangling
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Strait of Hormuz deal: what Washington just bought in Tehran
Sport16 Jun 26
Spain's gamble, Cape Verde's reward: Yamal on the bench as the World Cup's smallest nation takes the pitch
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX's valuation surge turns Musk into a sovereign-scale balance sheet
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses $3 trillion: what a private launch company is now worth, and what that number says
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX's first day of options trading rewrote the rules of who gets to price a private giant
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses Amazon — and briefly Microsoft — as IPO re-rating turns Musk's empire into a market-cap question nobody…
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses Microsoft and Amazon in three trading sessions, becoming the world's fourth most valuable company
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX's $60bn Cursor grab: a launchpad for the first trillion-dollar private company
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion in stock, the day after going public
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX buys Cursor's Anysphere for $60bn, vaulting past Amazon to $2.8tn valuation
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX Breaches the $3 Trillion Mark: What a Private Rocket Company Doing the Work of Nations Means for the Rest of Us
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX crosses $3 trillion as private capital rewrites the map of strategic industry
Long Reads16 Jun 26
SpaceX tops Amazon in five days: what a $2.7 trillion private valuation actually signals
Culture16 Jun 26
Pretoria Pushes Back on WHO Chief's Account of Foreigners Killed in Anti-Immigrant Unrest
Sport16 Jun 26
Sorsby's exit gives the NCAA — and Texas Tech — the offramp nobody wanted to be the first to build
Sport16 Jun 26
Sorsby heads to NFL supplemental draft as Big 12 escalates legal fight with Texas Tech and the Texas Attorney General
Sport16 Jun 26
Sorsby's exit forces Big 12, NCAA, and Texas Tech into a legal triangle that could reshape the supplemental draft
Sport16 Jun 26
Sorsby ends the eligibility fight Texas Tech should never have started
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Shein's Parisian Exit, China's Cooling Consumer, and Europe's Capital Problem: Three Data Points on a Reordering
Sport16 Jun 26
Scheffler, McIlroy and the field chasing a U.S. Open at one of the game's sternest tests
Sport16 Jun 26
Scheffler, McIlroy and the maths of a major at Shinnecock
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Saudi Arabia's 1-1 draw with Uruguay is the World Cup story nobody in the West is telling properly
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Ripple's Flutterwave bet: stablecoin rails arrive in Africa's biggest payments market
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Ripple puts $3.2 billion on Flutterwave — and a stablecoin at the heart of African remittances
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Predictive Markets and the Strange New Politics of Product Launches
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Pizza Hut's $2.7bn Sale and the Quiet End of the American Pizza Empire
Opinion16 Jun 26
OpenAI's $34 billion burn and the GPT-5 shuffle say the same thing: the AI race is now a balance-sheet race
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Netanyahu under fire as US-Iran deal leaves Lebanon out in the cold
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Netanyahu holds the line in Lebanon while keeping the US-Israel channel politely open
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Netanyahu's Open-Ended Buffer Zone: What an Israeli Security Perimeter Across Three Fronts Means for the Region
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The trillionaire's ledger: how a single SpaceX trading day reset the wealth pyramid
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A stadium chant, a sanctions promise, and the shape of a US-Iran deal
Long Reads16 Jun 26
A truce on paper, a war in the hills: Lebanon's quiet is doing the work diplomacy cannot
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Lebanon's mounting toll: what three months of Israeli strikes reveal about the war's widening arc
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Lavrov's "EU collapse" taunt and the limits of Russia's leverage over Ukraine's Western path
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Khan Yunis under drone fire: a day of strikes in southern Gaza and the reporting problem it exposes
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Fifteen Kilometres from the Kremlin: How the Kapotnya Strike Recalibrates Moscow's Risk Calculus
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Japan's Rate Pivot Meets an LNG Strike: A Quiet Stress Test for the Pacific Energy Order
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Japan's rate pivot and the GCAP advance: a quiet week that redraws Tokyo's risk map
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Japan turns it up: Inside the rate hike that ends a generation of zero
Investigations16 Jun 26
Water line severed: Israeli forces cut the only pipeline into a West Bank village near Ramallah
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Israel Shut Out of the US-Iran Deal: A Quiet Realignment, or a Negotiation Tactic?
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Buffer Zone That Won't Budge: How a Lebanon Frontline Became the Stress Test for the US-Iran Deal
Sport16 Jun 26
Iran's World Cup opener in Los Angeles becomes a stage for Iran's domestic fight
Sport16 Jun 26
Iran's World Cup squad relocates from Los Angeles to Tijuana, coach calls team 'most repressed' at tournament
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran's foreign minister lays down the terms: a Friday signing, then talks on war, blockade, and Hormuz
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Drone-by-drone, Iran tests the post-deal perimeter in the Strait of Hormuz
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran and Oman reopen the Strait of Hormuz question, two days after the deal that put it back on the table
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran's Nuclear Cap, Kyiv's Deadline, Washington's Arithmetic: Three Fronts, One Calendar
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran opens 2026 World Cup with 2-2 draw against New Zealand in Los Angeles
Culture16 Jun 26
Sanctions expert tells Reuters Iran secured multi-billion dollar concession from Washington
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's state-aligned media turns a mourning ritual into a mobilisation script
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Lion and the Stadium: What Iran's Diaspora Showed FIFA in Los Angeles
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's clerical establishment moves to script a state funeral for its late Supreme Leader
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran's red line on Lebanon: why Hezbollah says no deal is coming without an Israeli withdrawal
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran's Red Line in Lebanon: How a Hezbollah Veto Could Reshape the US Nuclear Track
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The framework that isn't: Washington sells a non-deal on Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Iran's diplomatic–military double game, priced by the crowd
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Iran deal that doesn't exist: parsing Trump's 'second stage' announcement from a Qatari hotel room
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Iran deal Congress hasn't read: Trump's diplomatic sprint meets a legislature in the dark
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's cultural establishment claims a civilisational first as wartime rhetoric intensifies
Culture16 Jun 26
Tehran moves to choke cheap imports and force real assembly in Iran's car market
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Tehran's army chief invokes the Ramadan and 12-day wars as a deterrence script against Washington
Business16 Jun 26
The inference wars: Why Nvidia's Blackwell may be peak GPU
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Vanishing APC: How an IDF Decoy and a $300bn US-Iran Deal Are Reshaping Lebanon's Battlefield and Washington's…
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Mines in the water: a Hormuz deal takes shape, but the tanker trade is not out of the woods
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Strait of Hormuz reopens on paper: who really believes the shipping lane is clear?
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Hezbollah's public letter to Tehran: gratitude as a strategic signal in a year of attrition
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Tempest Consortium: How a 2026 Fighter Jet Deal Rewires the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Long Reads16 Jun 26
G7 convenes in Evian with Zelensky as Trump signals a possible off-ramp in Ukraine
Culture16 Jun 26
A Threat at the White House: How a Foiled UFC Plot Is Reframing the Politics of Spectacle
Culture16 Jun 26
FBI disrupts White House drone plot targeting UFC America 250, court documents show
Culture16 Jun 26
A Gulf drawn by hand: Iranian illustrator Fatemeh Jafari reframes the Strait of Hormuz
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Coinbase's Tokenized Equities Push: A Bridge to Wall Street or a Regulatory Headache?
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Clinical-Research Software Becomes a Battlefield: A Long Read on the New Attack Surface
Culture16 Jun 26
CIA warns Trump Iran is unlikely to deliver the nuclear concessions Washington wants
Culture16 Jun 26
CIA pushback redraws the US-Iran nuclear endgame
Culture16 Jun 26
CIA Chief's Doubts Cast Shadow Over US-Iran Nuclear Memorandum
Sport16 Jun 26
Caminero headlines Monday's MLB home-run props slate as Rays chase season sweep of Orioles
Sport16 Jun 26
Megatron picks his heir: Calvin Johnson sees Puka Nacua as the one to break the NFL's most durable receiving mark
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bürgenstock and the new geometry of US–Iran diplomacy
Sport16 Jun 26
Brendan Sorsby's supplemental-draft gamble exposes a college-sports court problem
Sport16 Jun 26
Brendan Sorsby bets on the supplemental draft — and the NFL gets a quarterback decision it did not plan for
Investigations16 Jun 26
Brazil's top court convicts Eduardo Bolsonaro over US lobbying campaign against his father's judges
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
Brazil's top court jails Eduardo Bolsonaro for courting US interference
Opinion16 Jun 26
Tokyo Pulls the Lever: What the BOJ's Highest Rate in 30 Years Really Signals
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan lifts rates to a 31-year high, ending an era the yen could not afford
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan Returns to 1995: A Quiet End to the Zero-Rate Era
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan's 1% rate ends an era — and the carry trade is finally feeling it
Business16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan lifts benchmark rate to 1%, the highest since 1995
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bank of Japan breaks the floor: a 1% policy rate and the slow end of the carry trade
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Bangladesh's $3.2 Billion Bank Bailout: A Familiar Script in a Dollar-Scarce Economy
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Eight crew lost: a B-52 crash at Edwards and the long, quiet cost of keeping the bomber fleet flying
Long Reads16 Jun 26
After the Blockade: Iran, the Strait, and the Politics of an Uneasy Calm
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The 48-Hour Pivot: How Trump's Iran Deal Reshaped the Oil Map Before the Ink Dried
Culture16 Jun 26
Iran's state broadcaster maps a fibre network for a funeral it says belongs to a martyr
Long Reads16 Jun 26
Wine, Wire, and Warning Shot: Trump's 100% Tariff Threat Tests the G7's Cohesion
Opinion16 Jun 26
Three Goals, One Sprinkler, and the Optics of a World Cup Outpost
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The Hack Inside the Lab Notebook: How a Clinical-Research Tool Became a Military and AI Target
Long Reads16 Jun 26
China's consumer engine stalls: what a single month of negative retail sales really means
Long Reads16 Jun 26
China's two-track economy: industrial output powers ahead while retail sales fall for the first time since COVID…
Culture16 Jun 26
Carter Page's lawsuit against Comey ends at the Supreme Court — and with it, a question the FISA warrants never answered
Sport16 Jun 26
Argentina, USMNT face contrasting World Cup tests as SportsLine tipster extends betting run
Sport16 Jun 26
A $11,000 ticket and a banned flag: the two Americas inside the 2026 World Cup
Culture16 Jun 26
Cabinet fault lines surface over Trump's Iran negotiating posture
Culture16 Jun 26
Cabinet whispers: will Trump purge holdouts from a second Iran deal?
Culture16 Jun 26
Five detained over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event held on Trump's 80th birthday
Long Reads16 Jun 26
The 30-Day Clock: What a Geneva Accord Would Actually Trade Away
Geopolitics16 Jun 26
India blocks Telegram through 22 June, citing medical entrance exam fraud
Culture16 Jun 26
Vir Das vs Zepto: when a comedian's complaint becomes a referendum on India's quick-commerce middlemen
Culture16 Jun 26
World Youth Development Forum pivots to creative economy as a policy pillar
Sport16 Jun 26
Haaland's World Cup debut turns on a goalkeeping howler as Norway edge Iraq
Sport16 Jun 26
England survive Irish wobble, but Sciver-Brunt's late retirement steals the headlines
Long Reads16 Jun 26
India's Telegram block is a test of how far New Delhi will go to secure a single exam
Long Reads16 Jun 26